Students attend class at the San Fernando Central School in Tacloban, Philippines. The school was heavily damaged during Typhoon Yolanda and still has evacuated families living in temporary housing in some classrooms.

Demonstrators protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown outside Greater St. Marks Family Church while Brown's family met inside with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and a capacity crowd of guests to discuss the killing in St Louis, Mo.

Government scientists hope surveys of underwater wonders such as Christ of the Abyss reef off Key Largo, Fla., will be online for people to get 360-degree views, much like Google Map's street view lets people look at homes.

Spanish Guardia Civil watch as would-be immigrants from Africa sit atop a wire fence after scrambling over two other border barriers at Spain's tiny north African territory of Melilla. About 600 people tried to scale the triple-layer, 20-foot razor-wire barrier that separates Morocco from Melilla on Aug. 13.

A multiple exposure picture shows the Perseids meteor shower in the night sky from the mountains of the Sierra Norte de Madrid in Spain. The meteor shower occurs every year in August when the Earth passes through the debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet.

A man inspects his damaged apartment during ongoing fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists, in Donetsk, Ukraine. Ukraine said that any foreign humanitarian aid will have to be delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross, dealing a blow to a large Russian convoy en route to the country's embattled east.

Palestinian men crowd a metal window as they try to hand over their documents to U.N. workers through a window at a compound in Gaza City. The U.N. resumed aid to some of the 1.1 million Gazans who needed food assistance even before the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel began more than four weeks ago.

Iraqi children from the Yazidi community wave to Kurdish Peshmerga forces near Dohuk, Iraq, after their hometown was attacked by Sunni militants and they fled with their families. Thousands of members of the Yazidi minority are trapped on a mountain in northwestern Iraq with little food or water.

Cars are stranded along a flooded stretch of Interstate 696 in Warren, Mich. Police divers are searching for anyone trapped in their vehicles. Warren Mayor James Fouts said nearly 1,000 vehicles had been abandoned in the suburb after 5.2 inches of rain fell Monday.

Indonesian villagers walk to a crater during the Kasodo ceremony at Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, Indonesia, on Aug. 12. The Kasodo ceremony is a way of Tengger Hindus to express gratitude for a good harvest and fortune. Tengger Hindus throw offerings such as vegetables, chickens, goats and money into the crater.

A Ukrainian soldier holds a dog and rests during an operation against militants, in Maryinka, near Donetsk, Ukraine, on Aug. 12. Ukrainian government forces have narrowed the ring around Luhansk and other rebel strongholds. Fighting in the neighboring Donetsk region continued unabated.

An aerial view of the Niteroi area at the Guanabara bay, which surrounds north and south Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 11. This area, suffering high levels of contamination due to sewage and sedimentation, will host sailing competitions at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Thai rescue workers continue to search for survivors at a building collapse in the Pathum Thani province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug. 12. At least seven people were killed and several others injured when a building under construction collapsed on Aug. 11, local media reported.

Grammy-nominated music producer and disc jockey Steve Aoki is helped up by his team after body-surfing the crowd during his show at the Hakkasan nightclub inside the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Soccer players are photographed with a sign saying ''Stop Ebola in Africa" before a tournament in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, that gathered young people from adjacent Guinea, a focal point of the Ebola outbreak.

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Iraqi-Syrian border on the Fishkhabur bridge over the Tigris River. At least 20,000 civilians, most of them Yazidis, were besieged by Sunni militants on a mountain in northern Iraq before they escaped to Syria and were escorted by Kurdish forces back into Iraq.

Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa rest on their arrival in Tarifa, Spain. They were among 227 Africans rescued by maritime authorities at the Gibraltar Straight as they tried to reach the Spanish coast aboard 23 small boats.

The Week in Pictures | Aug. 11–17, 2014

Each week we bring you the very best in visual journalism. We start The Week in Pictures off with a dramatic image from Liberia, where a woman tries to help her husband after he fell and was knocked unconscious in an Ebola ward in Monrovia. People suspected of contracting the Ebola virus are being sent by Liberian health workers to the center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID. The death toll stands at more than 1,000.

Ferguson, Mo.: Demonstrators continue to protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown outside Greater St. Marks Family Church, as Brown’s family met inside with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the killing. More photos

Hollywood: A memorial continues to grow on Robin Williams’ Hollywood Walk of Fame star after he was found dead in his Northern California home. More photos

Warren, Mich.: Cars are stranded along a flooded stretch of Interstate 696. Warren Mayor James Fouts said roughly 1,000 vehicles had been abandoned in floodwaters in the suburb where many roads were closed after 5.2 inches of rain fell Monday.

Fishkhabur, Iraq: Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Iraqi-Syrian border by walking on a bridge over the Tigris River. At least 20,000 civilians, mostly Yazidis, were besieged by Sunni militants on a mountain in northern Iraq before they escaped to Syria and were escorted by Kurdish forces back into Iraq.

Tiefencastel, Switzerland: A passenger train traveling from St. Moritz to Chur in eastern Switzerland was derailed by a landslide. Eleven people were injured by the accident.

Key Largo, Fla: U.S. government scientists hope people will soon be able to go online and get a 360-degree view of such underwater wonders as the Christ of the Abyss reef, much like Google Map’s street view lets people look at homes.

Los Angeles: Paul McCartney greets a sold-out Dodger Stadium crowd before his first performance at the stadium since the Beatles played there 48 years ago.

Las Vegas: Grammy-nominated music producer and DJ Steve Aoki is helped up by his team after body-surfing the crowd during his show at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.

Add stops in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Hungary, Norway and South Korea to round out the report.